The reading and the lecture are both about Rober Peary's journey to the North Pole. While the author of the reading argues that Peary's claim of reaching the North Pole is true, the professor disputes this claim. She states that there is no solid evidence to prove Peary's big assertion and none of the reasons argued in the text is not convincing. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points made in the article by providing three controversial reasons.
In the writing, the author begins by saying that the National Geographic Society created a committee to investigate Peary's case, and the committee finally decided that his claim was concrete. On the other hand, the professor asserts that the committee was not objective since it consisted of Peary's close friends who contributed a lot of money to his voyage. Besides, the whole investigation process lasted only two days, so they might not have conducted a careful and precise inquiry.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, a British explorer named Tom Avery made the same trip recently, and he was able to go to the North Pole in an even shorter time than Peary. However, the professor points out that Avery's trip was different from Peary's journey in two ways, even though they both used similar dogsled. First of all, Avery did not carry any food by his sled because the required food was dropped for him by an airplane later. Consequently, the weights of their sleds were different from each other. Secondly, the weather during Avery's journey was much more favorable than when Peary made his trip.
Finally, the writer believes that by measuring the shadows in Peary's photos, it was proven that the Sun was exactly in the position that it should have been at that time. Not surprisingly, the professor refutes this claim by contending that these shadows do not prove anything since these photos were taken by primitive cameras, and the shadows, as well as images, are faded and blurred. Techniques, which are used to calculate the position of the Sun by measuring the shadows, need precise pictures with great accurate details.
To sum up, both the lecturer and the author hold conflicting views on the authenticity of Peary's allegation.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, as well as, first of all, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1844.0 1373.03311258 134% => OK
No of words: 372.0 270.72406181 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95698924731 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50013295981 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 145.348785872 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559139784946 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 419.366225166 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.2109678534 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.25 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3125 7.06452816374 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225123649884 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0666254325002 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0561895346712 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100066372514 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0580938904473 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 63.6247240618 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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